elephant my results (this was on the first page of the thread.)
For your earlier question.
mdo -i
root@scott2 scottro $ whoami
root
root@scott2 scottro $ id -p
login scottro
uid root
groups wheel video vboxusers scottro
Alright, these instructions are ~17 years old and don't apply any more. HAL was deprecated ages ago.
If you're looking for ways to configure X on FreeBSD consult the handbook, it should have up to date instructions...
You can't have HTTPS without a server certificate. Regular, self-signed or letsencrypt doesn't matter. But you have to have one that applies. And your browser needs to be able to verify it. Though you could ignore that verification check (not...
I'm using caddy for the first time and getting the above response when trying to connect by IP address.
I guess I need to set up some certificate to get past this problem, but can I specify that I don't want certificates initially?
I checked the IPs against our user database. They belong to regular users, some of which you've interacted with. I'm not going to tell you which IP address belongs to which user though, for obvious reasons.
This is probably caused by the...
Ok, just solved it! :)
As FreshPorts' page for plasma6-plasma-workspace reports for version 6.6.0, there is a bug (293368) that causes this loop. The workaround is to set the Clock widget to never show seconds.
More infos on the commit...
I'm trying again following suggestion by victort. This seems to work at the moment. I'll see if anything is missing.
echo -n 'pkg install -y '> nextcloud-install.sh
cat << EOF | tr '\n' ' ' >> nextcloud-install.sh
nextcloud-php84
caddy
redis...
I tried explain that the nextcloud-install.sh runs and installs all the pkgs bar one, ie postrgresql18-server.
This makes no sense to me and I'm trying to find some explanation.
It's hard to tell what happened without seeing your pkg upgrade output. But db5 is still a package.
What is likely is an upgraded package depended on a package that conflicted with db5 resulting in db5's removal. Without looking at your pkg...
Fakebook is putting some steam behind jemalloc(3). In case you don't know, FreeBSD's default malloc at this time is jemalloc. So FreeBSD should benefit from any improvements as long as they are not some Linux-only nonsense.
That reminds me that...
This post is something of the prequel to the Meta blog post above.
https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
It's great to see a turn-around.
I used a 10TB drive in USB NAS since late 2024 (WAVLINK USB-C 2-bay)
The 2 cords it came with deteriorated enough to cause random errors after about a year (relatively stationary so real portable use would have probably worn em sooner); a...
I have the following script to install all the packages I need for nextcloud, but for some reason it runs without any errors although postgresql18-server does not get installed.
Can anyone explain what the problem could be?
Installing it...
I think that trying to do this is basically proof of concept rather than being of any real world practical value.
A few years ago I tried to set up a Seagate GoFlex Net as a NAS and it would probably have been usable but never succeeded in...
back many years ago (when USB/SATA converters became commonplace) I investigated using USB for NAS/RAID in lieu of buying dedicated disk controllers. When you begin to understand the architecture and bandwidth sharing that goes on in USB, not to...
Original article here.
Consider this when replying.
FreeBSD runs on this…
FreeBSD runs on this…
and FreeBSD runs on this…!
It’s easy to get FreeBSD running on a Raspberry Pi. It’s easy to manage multiple hard drives with ZFS. So we were...
Yes, custom ports. In a separate ports tree (only contains my custom ports). Same repository where everything else comes from.
Building a custom port takes a bit of effort at first (getting things correct), but in the long run it's easier to...
I get about 210MBps (using dd) under FreeBSD. IIRC it was 340MBps or so under linux on the same pi4 & same SDD when I last measured it. Also note that USB 3.0-3.1 raw speed is 5Gbps, while USB 3.2 gen 2 can go to 10Gbps. BOT has much more...
Probably not a great idea to build a NAS connecting over USB.... Not to mention FreeBSD doesn't support the faster UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol). I do have a SSD connected via USB3 to a Pi4 and it works fine but I don't stress the system or...
The major problem I see here is the external USB connections which could be or become unreliable.
A rebuild or a mirror on a large disk is probably taking many days on here, and you would have to do it after every USB hickup.
Show me that AI becoming constructive and productive. I haven't seen anything yet. It can only be a knowledge-trap. If you create something with an AI service tthat has a market value, the AI provider will be the owner.
What's happening is...
Show me that AI becoming constructive and productive. I haven't seen anything yet. It can only be a knowledge-trap. If you create something with an AI service tthat has a market value, the AI provider will be the owner.
What's happening is...
Original article here.
Consider this when replying.
FreeBSD runs on this…
FreeBSD runs on this…
and FreeBSD runs on this…!
It’s easy to get FreeBSD running on a Raspberry Pi. It’s easy to manage multiple hard drives with ZFS. So we were...
Accidentally found machdep.idle=hlt that looks like idle=halt I was doing on Linux :D
machdep.idle_mwait was 1 prior, but I wonder how that would work if mwait was disabled in BIOS? I have machdep.idle_available: spin, mwait, hlt, acpi (default...
Accidentally found machdep.idle=hlt that looks like idle=halt I was doing on Linux :D
machdep.idle_mwait was 1 prior, but I wonder how that would work if mwait was disabled in BIOS? I have machdep.idle_available: spin, mwait, hlt, acpi (default...
Fakebook is putting some steam behind jemalloc(3). In case you don't know, FreeBSD's default malloc at this time is jemalloc. So FreeBSD should benefit from any improvements as long as they are not some Linux-only nonsense.
That reminds me that...
Yes. And a pkg-autoremove would also remove the build dependencies that were installed with the make install-missing-packages (they're flagged as "automatic").
If you look at the existing emulators/wine port you'll notice a whole bunch of ./configure arguments.
CONFIGURE_ARGS= --verbose \
--disable-kerberos \
--disable-tests \
--without-capi \
--without-coreaudio \
--without-dbus \...
Fakebook is putting some steam behind jemalloc(3). In case you don't know, FreeBSD's default malloc at this time is jemalloc. So FreeBSD should benefit from any improvements as long as they are not some Linux-only nonsense.
That reminds me that...
libcapi20: Disable it, you're not going to need to support ISDN connections from within WINE.
With regards to other libraries, you often have to instruct ./configure where those files live on FreeBSD.
Make sure X works first, then you can think about making it start automatically when the system boots.
I'll throw in the analogy again, when you build a house you build the foundations first, then the walls and finally the roof. You don't start...
No, it's a command you enter on the command line. The sysrc command will add an entry to rc.conf for you.
I understand FreeBSD is entirely new to you, but do you have any prior experience with command lines? Perhaps on Windows or Linux?
You don't. sysrc is a command to conveniently add/remove/modify entries in /etc/rc.conf.
Other than that, rc.conf is just a text file, you can use any preferred text editor to modify it. Do NOT put commands in /etc/rc.conf.
elephant (like that name, by the way), I can't duplicate your issue.
mdo -i pkg update
works fine for me.
My user is a member of wheel,video, and vboxusers (which I'll remove when I get around to it as I've switched to bhyve).
Hrmm, if I...
general.useragent.override on Firefox seemingly does it too; I haven't noticed anything different on websites yet:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD 16 x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0
I'm curious what else can be changed on UA...
I still have my X220 ( need to fix it ), my OG T61 ( but no original parts from original one left )
I got my from xyte, nos - i think it costed me around $1500 plus taxes, imports.
They still keep prices and in Europe Thinkpad`s are way more...
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